opera and concerts in london and beyond

24 February 2013

Marc Almond's Ten Plagues in London at last

With music by Conor Mitchell and inspiration from Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year, Mark Ravenhill's libretto follows a man's journey through the streets of London during the
Great Plague of 1665. Resonances with today's AIDS 'plague', though never explicit, haunt the work.

The workshop version I (and maybe you) saw in 2010 employed three singers, one of them a trained operatic voice. The final version trims the number down to just one - Marc Almond. Yes, that one.